The house and grounds were great. We thoroughly enjoyed the game room and walking and snow shoeing on the property. We were there during an extended period of extreme cold - minus 20 degrees one morning, so we took advantage of the fireplace most days which was awesome.
My overall rating would have been 4 or 5 stars but for one issue. We had specifically asked about the internet. I indicated 4 of us would be working 3 days each of the 2 weeks we would be there. Beth indicated it would be fine. Unfortunately I did not ask for specific info regarding the service and quickly came to understand the internet was satellite based. This caused it to be much slower than a cable based internet and caused a 5 - 10 second delay during all conference calls which was a large part of what the 4 of us needed to do. This was just not workable. Some of us could not connect to our company systems and had very slow downloading of large files. We spoke with Beth, she did contact her provider, but the reality is there isn't much you can do to improve a satellite based internet connection. This resulted in one couple having to spend 8 hours driving back and forth to their home each weekend and returning Wed night. I was able to stay as I utilized a company provided phone, data plan and hotspot.
If you are looking for a place to get away from it all, have a beautiful setting and room for lots of folks - this would be a great choice. We even discussed how fun it would be for our adult children, spouses and grandchildren to return in a large group - assuming we didn't need to be online while there.
We have stayed an many VRBOs and Beth was at least as responsive, if not more so than many. She provided all paper products, dish washer soap, etc and gladly dropped off additional supplies since we were there for 2 weeks and did require replenishment.
Again, our only disappointment was that we were unable to fully utilize the home all the days we had planned (and paid for). This made the effective nightly rate much more expensive than we thought and would normally pay. In retrospect, if we had understood the internet was satellite, we would have chosen a different property.
That said - it truly is a private luxury property!